The Designing Libraries for the 21st Century conference brings together architects, designers, planners, IT professionals, library administrators, and librarians from multiple disciplines to explore emerging trends, challenges, and achievements in library space design. This year’s conference was hosted at the University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries. Pre-Conference The Pre-conference, Designing With, Not For: Igniting Human-Centered... more ›
The 2022 Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC) took place in Tampa, Florida. Although the conference ran from February 8 through February 12, I attended the first 3 full days. The first session I attended ran from 8:30am to 3:30pm, and focused on the role of outreach initiatives to promote equitable, diverse, and inclusive... more ›
In late July, Rodrigo attended Harvard University’s Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians, an intensive 6-day leadership program offered by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE). The program, which was held at the Gutman Library, located near Harvard Square in Cambridge Massachusetts, focused on three areas of leadership: Planning, Organizational Strategy and Change, and Transformational... more ›